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Book reviews do not discourage children from reading except in your own world especially in the 2nd and 3rd grade. Book reviews help children with comprehension on a regular basis so they don't have comprehension problems later and end up hating school.[/quote]

I've heard many, many children say that they do not want to read books if they have to do book reviews for those books. I will tell them that you said that they're wrong about their own feelings.[/quote]

That may be the case, but it doesn't mean they won't read a second book just because a book review was required for the first book. Book reviews do not discourage reading overall. They just think a book review is work which it is. School is work.[/quote]

Book reviews are work, and they ruin enjoyment of the book.  It's a shame that schools require book reports of the classics, thus ruining the classics forever.  I only enjoy reading the ones that were never assigned in school.  The ones that were assigned, were ruined for me.  [/quote]

I don't even know how to respond to that. You have no understanding that those book reports allowed you to understand other books and the world better and made you a better writer?[/quote]

I've written a lot of book reports. Even in college! I don't think that these book reports allowed me to understand other books. They might have made me a better writer, in the sense that any writing can make a writer a better writer, especially if there's a reader who makes careful comments. But for me, book reports take all of the enjoyment out of the book. That's one big reason why I decided not to be an English double major. (I'm not the PP you're responding to.)

Are book reports a necessary evil? Yes, probably, for middle school and beyond. But I don't think that they're appropriate for early elementary grades, when the child is supposed to be learning to read and learning to like to read.[/quote]

It sounds like you had some difficulty with book reports and your teachers didn't offer you enough support. Do you only have an early elementary child? By 4th grade, children are blogging about their books regularly. If they've had no experience writing about books prior, they cannot do tasks like these. There are a lot of necessary evils in school. A good teacher helps children get over their humps and works with them to enjoy school tasks.[/quote]

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